Refusal to Treat - Ethics
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Access to fertility treatment by gays, lesbians, and unmarried persons.

Sep 2009 This statement explores the implications of reproduction by single individuals, unmarried heterosexual couples, and gay and lesbian couples, and concludes that ethical arguments supporting denial of access to fertility services on the basis of ... Read more...

Physicians' beliefs about conscience in medicine: a national survey.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE: To explore physicians' beliefs about whether physicians sometimes have a professional obligation to provide medical services even if doing so goes against their conscience, and to examine associations between physicians' opinions and their ... Read more...

The development of "medical futility": towards a procedural approach based on the role of the medical profession.

30 May 2009 Over the past 50 years, technical advances have taken place in medicine that have greatly increased the possibilities of life-prolonging intervention. The increased possibilities of intervening have brought along new ethical questions. Not ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Refusal to Treat - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Access to fertility treatment by gays, lesbians, and unmarried persons. Sep 2009
• Physicians' beliefs about conscience in medicine: a national survey. 30 Aug 2009
• Ethical obligation of surgeons to noncompliant patients: can a surgeon refuse to operate on an intravenous drug-abusing patient with recurrent aortic valve prosthesis infection? 29 Jun 2009
• The development of "medical futility": towards a procedural approach based on the role of the medical profession. 30 May 2009
• What ethical guidance is there for dismissing a patient from a practice? 30 May 2009
• Conscience and the unconscionable. 30 May 2009
• Should we protect the most sensitive people? 17 May 2009
• Whence tendance? Accepting the responsibility of care for the chronic pain patient. 29 Apr 2009
• Alleged medical abandonment in chronic opioid analgesic therapy: case report. 20 Apr 2009
• Conscientious objection gone awry--restoring selfless professionalism in medicine. 23 Mar 2009
• Conscientious objectors. Obama plan to rescind rule draws Catholic criticism. 21 Mar 2009
• Stand up to homophobia. 30 Jan 2009
• The fiduciary obligation of physicians to "just say no" if an "informed" patient demands services that are not medically indicated. 30 Dec 2008
• Medicine's duty to treat pandemic illness: solidarity and vulnerability. 30 Dec 2008
• Migration and the human right to health. 30 Dec 2008
• Negative and positive claims of conscience. 30 Dec 2008
• May I ethically discontinue treating an overanxious patient? 29 Nov 2008
• Healthcare responsibilities and conscientious objection. 27 Nov 2008
• Discharging the problem patient. 5 Nov 2008
• Morals, medicine and geography. 2 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Refusal to Treat'

Definition: Refusal of the health professional to initiate or continue treatment of a patient or group of patients. The refusal can be based on any reason. The concept is differentiated from PATIENT REFUSAL OF TREATMENT see TREATMENT REFUSAL which originates with the patient and not the health professional.

Descriptor UI: D016079

Alternative terms: Refusal to Treat; Physician Refusal to Treat; Patient Abandonment; Abandonment, Patient;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethics; legislation & jurisprudence; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: N04.590.233.727.605; N05.300.100.675;

History Note: 91

Technical Notes: refusal of a health professional to treat a patient: do not confuse with PATIENT REFUSAL OF TREATMENT see TREATMENT REFUSAL